Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 99

But the bottle was not broken, and, better still, it understood every word that was said: this language it had heard at the furnaces and at the wine merchant's; in the forest and on the ship,--it was the only good old language it could understand.

Who acts: trouble · What happens: not break, understand, say, hear, be · To what, where: bottle, word, language, furnaces, only good old language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 broken	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bottle	det
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 broken	advmod
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 understood	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 still	punct
10	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 still	advmod
11	still	still	ADV	_	14 understood	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 understood	nsubj
14	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	conj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 understood	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 said	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux:pass
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 word	acl:relcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 language	punct
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 language	det
22	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	appos
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	aux
25	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 language	acl:relcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 furnaces	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 furnaces	det
28	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 heard	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 merchant	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 merchant	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 merchant	det
32	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 merchant	compound
33	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 furnaces	nmod
34	's	's	PART	_	33 merchant	case
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 forest	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ship	cc
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 ship	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ship	det
42	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forest	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 language	punct
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 language	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 language	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 language	cop
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 language	det
48	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 language	amod
49	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 language	amod
50	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 language	amod
51	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forest	appos
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 understand	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 understand	aux
54	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 language	acl:relcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not break	past · passive		the bottle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	understand	past	trouble	every word		still	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		every word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	hear	past · perfect	trouble	this language not said here	the furnaces at the wine merchant		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
5	is a	past	trouble	the only good old language			tree rules
6	understand	could	trouble	the only good old language not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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